Sentences with phrase «of cynodont»

The prozonstrodontians form part of the larger group of therapsids, probainognathians, a group of cynodont (dog - like) therapsids that evolved a large cerebellum and lost the parietal foramen for the third eye (an organ on the skull roof that detects light for monitoring thermoregulation and daily rhythms such as sleep).

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270 to 252 million years ago, the therapsids consisted of six subgroups, one of which, the cynodonts, gave rise to mammals.
One of the lineages, the dicynodonts, is now extinct, but the other one, the cynodonts, gave rise to the mammals.
The site contains abundant fossils, diverse assemblages of Triassic animals including relatives of crocodylians, giant - headed amphibians and ancient relatives of modern mammals called cynodonts.
The pelycosaur group died out at the end of the Permian, but another group of synapsids, the cynodonts, went on to give rise to the mammals eventually.
Then they compared the two endocasts with those for seven fossils of early cynodonts — carnivorous reptiles that are close relatives of the first mammals — as well as with endocasts for 27 other primitive mammals that lived between 65 million and 190 million years ago and with the brains of 270 living mammals.
The most primitive mammals probably appeared in the late Triassic, descending from a mammal - like suborder of theraspid reptiles known as cynodonts.
cynodont A group of long - extinct therapsid reptiles with some mammal - like features.
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